No use any of us speculating about Thomson, the judicial process will no doubt resolve this long drawn out saga. I doubt Thomson had much to do with setting the election date. For my pennies worth it had more to do with the resignations of two Ministers declaring they would not stand at the next election. If I was PM I would have done the same thing to settle in the new front bench.

When Australia wakes up to fixed election terms none of the mainstream media nonsense will fester as it always does at this time.

Pelican, announcing the date of the election would not have affected
anything as everyone knows roughly when the election will be.
The same thing could be said about settling in to the portfolio whether
the election date was known or not.

I would say it had something to do with preventing a by-election either
because of Thompson, or an internal maneuver to disadvantage Rudd.

Bazz
I could see that setting the election date may have been to offset Rudd's desires for leadership but I don't think Craig Thomson's case would have been finalised before the election in any case. To tie in the early announcement to him is misguided IMO.

Poirot,

When someone comes up with something that fits a particular situation, is humorous, catchy and likely to “stick”, it’s called “original thought”, a quip, a barb, a one liner, it’s called humor.

When you try to emulate it, it is no longer an original idea or thought, it’s just a copy. You said yourself that the Parrot tag was humorous. SM is also right, it does fit nicely.

Any attempt to gain advantage by replication is a manifestation of “childlike satisfaction of the immediacy”, a reflection of the power of ridicule (rather than Hercule) and an indicator of the emotion felt by the recipient.

It was well targeted, you definitely did not think it humorous, and it will stick, not because it was that “sticky” but because you have made yourself the fly paper. When you try to do the same to others, it is no longer original thought, just a juvenile attempt at a copy that gets no traction.

Just to emphasize how much you are making yourself an immature target, you could easily attract the tag of Ridicule Parrot rather than Hercule Poirot.

Where is your intellectual “original thought”? Remember that one of the key attributes of cult membership is the loss of spontaneous humor.

Do try for something original, humorous and give us all a belly chuckle (sorry Belly).

spindoc,

Yes we all know that you thought of it first - and that SM simply picked it up and ran with it.

The whole monicker thing is supremely unimportant (aside from the initial first giggle)....your last post was you attempting to grab yourself a little kudos for coming up with it.

Very well then...

You're a clever little spindoc aren't you : )

(will that suffice for now?)

Pelican, I included Thompson in it because there could be a risk that
he would resign for some reason or other.
I don't think he will resign, but you never know.